Running Steel, Running America: Race and Economic Policy and the Decline of Liberalsm, (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 1998).

The World of Marcus Garvey: Race and Class in Modern Society (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986, paperback ed. 1991).

Articles/Reviews/Essays:
"The Locomotive Loses Power: The Trade and Industrial Policies of Jimmy Carter," in Gary M. Fink and Hugh Davis Graham, eds., The Carter Presidency Policy: Choices in the Post-New Deal Era (Lawrence: UniversityPress of Kansas, 1998), pp. 72-94.

"Engaged History," International Labor and Working Class History 46 (Fall, 1994).

"The Ins and Outs of the CIO," International Labor and Working Class History 44 (Fall, 1993), 53-63.

"Race and Class Consciousness Revisited," Reviews in American History 19 (1991), 551-60.

"Southern Workers in National Unions: Birmingham Steelworkers, 1933-1951," in Robert Zieger, ed., Organized Labor in the Twentieth Century South (University of Tennessee Press, 1991), pp. 183-222.

"Defining the Race, 1890-1930," in Werner Sollors, ed., The Invention of Ethnicity (Oxford University Press, 1989), pp.77-104.

"'Of Booker T. Washington and Others,': The Political Economy of Racism in the United States," Science and Society, XXXVIII (Winter, 1974, 75), 422-63.